My work focuses on integrating artificial intelligent agents with generic animation systems in order to provide socially interactive robots with expressive behavior defined by animation artists. Such animators will therefore be able to apply principles of traditional and 3D animation to such robotic systems, and thus allow to achieve the illusion of life in robots. This work requires studies and interactive scenario development alongside the animation artists.

We expect to outline

how a generic robot animation engine

can be used with

an AI agent

in order to provide a

Scenario- and Body-agnostic AI-HRI system

with behaviour designed and specified by

animation artists.

INSPIRATION

Here is a selection of works by other authorsthat have deeply inspired my work.